Hi my name is Ben and I’m a runaholic. Unfortunately my addiction has gotten the better of me so I have had to reduce my consumption this week and focus more on recovery with my previous addiction with the rehab center from https://cocainerehabcentre.co.uk/ that helps me with my drug addiction treatment and drugs and mental health to be a better version of myself.

Tired legs

I have been getting some consistent training in with a few weeks in a row at around 60km per week with 2 hour long runs and speed work. Which is great but it has taken a bit of a toll on my legs. Most noticeable with threshold runs and racing where my legs just seem to fatigue quickly.

This week was a planned recovery week, but Chelsea decided to drop it back further than originally planned. Wednesday run dropped and  a rather short Sunday run got me down to the lightest week I’ve had since January.

So hopefully this lighter week will help as well as the additional focus on recovery. Training will ramp back up again for the next 4 weeks at least. Although soon I will transition from speed phase to more marathon (and half marathon) specific training which should also help.

This week

Tuesday was speed workout day with 10x1min at 4.10 or faster with 1min jog recoveries. Most efforts were in the 3:50-4:00 range although slowed a little towards the end.

Wednesday a rest this week, instead of running I visited Pure Physio for a much needed remedial massage during my lunch break and a hot radox salt bath that night. I definitely need to put a higher focus on recovery whilst in harder phases of training.

Thursday a new session, with Gold Coast half marathon on the radar it’s now time to get some half marathon pace training in. A 10km run split into two paces, first 5km @ 4:50, second 5km @ 4:38. Realistically my half marathon pace is probably somewhere inbetween those two paces but let’s see how it goes.

Saturday threshold at Werribee Mansion. A change this week dropping target threshold pace from 4:24 back to 4:30. This pace was better but I’m still finding it challenging at the moment with the leg fatigue kicking in. Just going to keep working away though.

Sunday easiest Sunday run in a while, just the Great Circle drive loop, which isn’t very easy really but a 12.5km run is pretty short now.

Running

1%-ers

Coming up

Ooo a new section this week. Thought it would be good to mention what’s coming up.

This week Western Aths pack run at Ferny Creek. One of my favourite places to run. I’m thinking about switching my long run and threshold run around since it’s not really the best for thresholds and I’ve always wanted to do a long run out there.

Two cross country races in the immediate future. The dreaded Wandin Park on 13th of May.. 8km cross country run of death (wish me luck). Followed by Cruden Farm on the 27th of May, a much more enjoyable course, even though it can be rather muddy and 16km long.

The next real target race is Gold Coast half marathon. Officially registered now so just need to get organised with flights and accommodation. Should be a fun weekend!

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